Medical Data of 500,000 French Residents Leaked Online
Sensitive medical data belonging to nearly half a million French people has been stolen and leaked online, according to a joint investigation by news source Libération and French cybersecurity blog Zataz.
The exposed data, which can be accessed from multiple sites, includes names, phone numbers, and postal addresses of 491,840 individuals. In some cases, it is accompanied by identifying information including Social Security number, birth date, blood type, GP, health insurance provider, medical treatments, HIV status, and pregnancy test results.
Libération found that the data was stolen from around 30 different medical laboratories located mainly in France s northwestern quarter. The news source said that the leaked information corresponds to samples taken between 2015 and October 2020, a period during which the laboratories were all using a particular type of medical administrative sof
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